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Thomas Fisher
Civilian
I was aged nine when the war started. I lived in Liverpool during the Blitz and was not evacuated, as many of my school friends were, to North Wales. I used to go out the morning after a heavy raid the night before to collect shrapnel from both the bombs and the anti-aircraft fire. I saw many of the homes and a local maternity hospital that had been destroyed by the bombing. For our defence we had one battery of anti-aircraft guns, and this was placed in a different street every night so that the bombers couldn't pinpoint its position. Eventually, they scored a direct hit and that was the end of Liverpool's defence against the Blitz.